Julie Has a Fear of Riding in Elevators

question 54

Multiple Choice

Julie has a fear of riding in elevators. She is seeing a therapist who asks her to construct a hierarchy of her fears related to riding in elevators. In addition, her therapist is teaching her to relax while imagining each fear in the hierarchy. Julie's therapist is using __________

• A) person-centered therapy.
• B) rational-emotive therapy.
• C) systematic desensitization.
• D) cognitive consistency therapy.

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Definitions:

Abstract Word

A word that represents an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object or physical thing.

Overconfidence Influence

The phenomenon where an individual's confidence in their judgments and abilities is higher than the accuracy of those judgments.

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that one would have predicted or expected the outcome, known also as the "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.